Controversial bodies : thoughts on the public display of plastinated corpses / edited by John D. Lantos. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (x, 145 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Vive la difference : Gunther von Hagens and his maligned copycats / Life-like humans : playing poker with James Bond and Ted Williams / What would Dr. William Hunter (1718-83) think about bodies revealed? / For Ronnie and Donnie / Resisting the allure of the lifelike dead / Normative objections to posing plastinated bodies : an ethics of bodily repose / More wondrous and more worthy to behold : the future of public anatomy / Public anatomy : history and potential / Detachment has consequences : a note of caution from medical students' experiences of cadaver dissection / Craft and narrative in body worlds : an aesthetic consideration / Being non-biodegradable : the lonely fate of metameat / The creeping illusionizing of identity from neurobiology to newgenics / Linda Shulte-Sasse -- George J. Annas -- Lynda Payne -- Myra Christopher -- Christine Montross -- Tarris Rosell -- Geoffrey Rees -- Callum F. Ross -- Farr A. Curlin -- Neil Ward -- Catherine belling -- Barbara Maria S Stafford.



9781421403571



101552886 DNLM


Bioethics.
Human anatomy.
Tissues--Plastic embedment.
Dead.
Exhibitions.
Medicine in the Arts
Cadaver
Bioethical Issues
Exhibitions as Topic
Human Body
Plastic Embedding


Electronic Books.

QM556 / .C668 2011